284 Stoneykirk Place-Names. 



There is one Kirkhill, but there is a Bell's Hill, Baillie's Hill, 

 M'Kelvie's Hill, with Padd3''s Knowe, Jenny's Cairn, Mar)- 

 Wilson's Slunk. Hills are still named from the cattle they feed 

 — Hoghill, Horseparkhill. Partan Point is as significant as 

 Knochscaddan. Salt pans denotes the place where salt was once 

 got by evaporation. So Sandmill, the (meal) mill on the Sands. 

 Like Lintmill, these tell of what once was and is no longer 

 through the change of times. 



Caldons was once as informative a name as Thistle hill, 

 Thornhouse, Cranberry Rock are now. Heather house is not far 

 from Freugh. Gennoch is at one end of the sand dunes, Sandhead 

 at the other, a similar thought in both terms, but the latter being 

 a modern name. The designation of places by any natural 

 feature is nearly as marked in these modern terms as in the 

 ancient. Lochhill (3), Bogside, Moorpark, Mosscroft, Lake 

 Cottage are some specimens. As there is a Smithyhill opposite 

 Challoch, there is a Bridgebank opposite Kildrochat. Strange to 

 say the Goodwife is near Cairnamon, and there is also Maiden- 

 craigs. No red or yellow occurs, but there is a Greyhill. A dis- 

 trict is called Black quarter, as there was a Ducarroch. A place 

 is called Stinking Bight from the collection of Seaweed there, 

 anciently Carrick a glassen. Another place is called for the 

 same reason Ringdoo (Rhinndhu), black headland. I know no 

 ancient parallel to the modern Murder Plantain, a wood so named 

 as it commemorates the death scene of many. 



We have thus information in the place names about the life 

 lived here in the past, and evidence of a certain similarity of the 

 mind's action on what surrounded the inhabitants in the various 

 centuries, though there was much dissimilarity in the surround- 

 ings themselves. 



Arboriculture as a Hobby. By Mr W. H. Whellens, 

 Forester, Comlongon. 



There are many small estates where sylviculture or forestry 

 proper is out of the question, as it is well known that to produce 

 the finest crops of timber the plantations must be on a large 

 scale. But even on the smallest estate where there is any park 

 land or waste ground unsuitable for farming, arboriculture may 

 be attempted. Most country gentlemen's houses have a certain 



